Senior Software Engineer, Prime Video Personalization and Discovery

Amazon; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer for Prime Video Personalization and Discovery (PVPD). The role leads technical strategy, architecture and implementation of PV groupings and optimization initiatives to deliver AI-powered content discovery experiences.

You will guide cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and drive operational excellence across the organization while shaping the roadmap for personalization infrastructure and reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain AI based recommendation systems services that drive personalized experiences across Prime Video.
• Build distributed systems to manage high-volume, low-latency AI powered customer experiences.
• Develop tooling and automation to improve efficiency, visibility, and reliability of recommendation systems.
• Collaborate with applied scientists, product management, and other software teams to enhance discovery and personalization experiences.

Skills

Software development

Programming experience

System design leadership

Mentorship / leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Prime Video Personalization and Discovery

Job ID: 10496478 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Prime Video Personalization and Discovery (PVPD) is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead Personalization and Discovery customer experiences. This role will work across team boundaries within PVPD and with external partners to drive the success of AI-powered content discovery initiatives. You'll be responsible for leading the technical strategy, architecture, and implementation of PV groupings, re-engagement and optimizations. You'll also establish operational excellence practices across the organization.

Key job responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain AI based recommendation systems services that drive personalized experiences across Prime Video
• Build distributed systems to manage high-volume, low-latency AI powered customers experiences
• Develop tooling and automation to improve the efficiency, visibility, and reliability of recommendation systems.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with applied scientists, product management, and other software development teams to continuously enhance the Prime Video discovery and personalization experiences experience
• Confidently train new team-mates about your customers, what your team’s software does, how it is constructed, tested, operates, and how it fits into the bigger picture.
• Focus on operational excellence, constructively identifying problems and proposing solutions, taking on projects that improve your team’s software, making it better and easier to maintain.
• Champion best practices around software engineering, including designing, testing, monitoring

A day in the life

Your day begins with team standup meetings, where you help prioritize work streams and unblock critical issues. Some days will involve hands-on development, writing and reviewing code, and other will consist of technical leadership responsibilities, authoring design documents or weighing in on your teammates approaches.

Throughout the day, you'll mentor junior engineers, providing technical guidance and collaborating with product managers to translate business requirements into technical solutions. You'll drive discussions with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on architectural decisions.

You’ll be responsible for maintaining and improving our personalization infrastructure's reliability and performance, troubleshooting complex production issues and implementing monitoring and alerting systems.

About the team

We are a team that is passionate about using Machine Learning and experiments to help surfacing the right content to the right customer at the right time. We love experimentation and learning how we can improve the quality of our recommendations.

You’ll join a diverse group of engineers at different career stages, combining fresh perspectives with deep technical expertise. Our mission is to create intuitive, fast, and personalized experiences that delight our global customer base. We blend technical excellence with strong product thinking, and our culture emphasizes learning and growth, with senior members actively mentoring newer engineers.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSU). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

USA, NY, New York - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually

USA, WA, SEATTLE - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.